Hi, just wondering if anyone knows the reasoning behind canned fruit having syns. Is it because it's easy to eat very quickly? Or because of the juice? I forgot to bring my afternoon fruity snack so wondering if I could get canned peaches from the garage over the road and drain/rinse them to reduce the syns or something....
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23rd January, 2014

AnnaFaraday

It is something to do with the effects on the fruit of the canning process, which involves heat.

23rd January, 2014

ACH

I would have to guess that to preserve it for so long as cans do have long shelf life they will have a hell of a lot more sugar than fresh fruit. Just a guess

23rd January, 2014

katieh88

The tins have lots of sugars in them. X

23rd January, 2014

Princess_Stevie

The fruit tends to ferment in it's own sugar, which is what makes them so high in Syns. Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid. Sorry! I don't set the rules, I just follow them ;)

23rd January, 2014

Libertylb

There are syns in canned fruits as the fruit is packed into the cans with juice. Then in order to preserve the food and prevent any fermentation (which is when a can 'blows') the cans are sealed and pass through a steam cooker/pasteuriser.

So there are syns in canned fruits for two reasons:
-the syn value takes into account the juice and this has syns in just as normal juice has (unless you are using a value that is a drained weight-I don't have a book to hand)
-during the canning process the food is cooked, so as with all cooked fruit there are syns

In my honest opinion if it stops you being starving and picking the less healthy version (for me a bar of chocolate) it's still a good plan

Hope this helps!

23rd January, 2014

Gwella

Thanks everyone. It hadn't occurred to me that they use heat in the canning process.

By some stroke of luck, the shop was selling blueberries today! They hardly ever have fresh fruit! But this may be useful info for the future :)